Greensteel deconstruction please

[Lleren]

Please create a way for us to recover the components of the Greensteel items we have made. Blanks, Shards of Power, small medium and large ingredients.

In any MMO things change, we can accept this. But it would make it much easier to accept, or at least less painful for many, to be able to recover bits from the items we make to play by the rules of the game as we are aware of them.

I am more aware of the Dev rulings on various subjects then many members of my Guild, as I do check the Dev Trackers regularly. I suspect most of the regular forum users are some of the go to folks in thier Guilds. There is however a rather large community in DDO that never, or rarely checks the forums.

The community that simply plays and avoids forum useage may never be aware that certain things are not supposed to stack, but do. They may see evidience that it works on youtube, or from a rumor, or a guildy. Go use one of the player created tools that someone lets 'em know about to design thier Greensteel items. And then a few months down the road the items stop stacking ( concordant opposition ), or stop working the same way ( no multiple summons ).

A Dual Shard T3 Greensteel item takes (if you get he right drops ) about 16 Completetions, or 48 parts 1 through 4 Shroud runs to get the Large ingredients needed. 16 completions will take about 2 months if the player only has a single character of the appropriate level and stays on lockout timer fairly regularly.

After having done that much running however they can likely make any T2 Greensteel item as quickly as they can get the blanks and that first Shard of Power.

Please, create a way for us to recover some of the benefits of that effort, when a change in the Game, changes how we want to play.

[Chaosprism]

Well I'd like to get the base +5 green steel and the power shards (empty) out of an item at least.

The ingredients that power the shards and the power within them can be nullified, even being able to do that would let me for one thing, undo their mistakes.

[Comfortably]

I'd like all the ing back minus the power cells and shards.

[blitzschlag]

you know there are some ways to bring "content" to a game. the cheap ones are:

- take year old content and add 1000% hp and double attack/ac and sell it as epic
- make existing grind-items worthless (due to a lame, years old bug) that have to be regrinded
- make ac (and therefore ac-builds) useless

[FluffyCalico]

How about you stick it in the alter which shatters it back to ingrediants. You just loose the shards and blank which were destroyed by getting the mats out.

[Pyromaniac]

/signed

[SaisMatters]

The devs have said many times this will never happen. Which I agree with. Stop beating a dead horse.

[Gkar]

The devs have said many times this will never happen. Which I agree with. Stop beating a dead horse.

No, they said it wasn't currently in the plans.

Neither was promoting solo play. Neither was dungeon scaling. Neither was hirelings. Things change.

[systemstate]

I think something that took great effort to build should also take great effort to destroy. If greensteel items are allowed to be deconstructed, it should be more than just tossing the item into a single altar and clicking a "deconstruct" button.

[Chai]

/signed

I can then fix the noob mistake I made years ago in not double sharding my mineral two great ax.

[Sirea]

I'd like all the ing back minus the power cells and shards.

This.

It makes little sense to get Shards or Power cells back, as they can be seen as an expendable resource.

I think I'd even be OK with a diminished return on ingredients, with the reasoning that some ingredients are accidentally destroyed while trying to salvage them. Like say, you lose 1 or 2 random ingredients of each tier on every deconstruction. That's still a very good rate of return, with a bit of risk or consequence thrown in.

But yeah, some sort of deconstruction needs to happen, so I'll /sign a thread like this every time I see it.

[ArichValtrahn]

Why do some blanks require a rare large horn while original blanks dont? Please change that.

Why are small shards the most rare? Please change that too.

And yes to deconstruction.

[Shaarax]

Why do some blanks require a rare large horn while original blanks dont? Please change that.

Why are small shards the most rare? Please change that too.

And yes to deconstruction.

/signed to all of this.

My suggestion would be to place the altar (or altars, perhaps one for each tier) in that big room in the Tower of the Twelve. There's even an npc in there who says when you talk to her that they are going to put an Eldritch Device in there, so its set up for it already.

[Kale_Hagan]

Why do some blanks require a rare large horn while original blanks dont? Please change that.

Why are small shards the most rare? Please change that too.

And yes to deconstruction.

When greensteel originally came out, not all weapon blanks were available. They used large and medium horns to increase the number available.

I agree that it shouldn't be so much extra work to make a greataxe than a greatsword, but this issue is simple math.

And small shards? Yeah, frustrating, but considering how many runs you need to finish a weapon anyway? Does that really matter?

and /signed on deconstruction. You should be able to salvage a certain percentage of ingredients, and lose the blank, shards, and power cells.

[Eladiun]

/beating this post

...no not it it...

/signing this horse

...err...

/this should be done.

[cm2_supernova]

I'd like all the ing back minus the power cells and shards.

yep...especially since every mod when new gear comes out we are stuck re-crafting. I love the shroud and all, but its getting insane having so much GS sitting in the bank.

[Yaga_Nub]

/not signed.

This horse isn't just dead, it's nothing but a bloody pulp and pulverized bones. Let it go!

[cm2_supernova]

/not signed.

This horse isn't just dead, it's nothing but a bloody pulp and pulverized bones. Let it go!

just because something is continually discussed and ignored doesnt make the point any less valid.

[Sirea]

just because something is continually discussed and ignored doesnt make the point any less valid.

If anything it makes it more valid, considering a different person brings it up every time.

After all, how many years of beating the dead horse over respecs over and over did it take for Turbine to finally put them in?

I like Shroud as much as the next guy, but having to reshift gear around and make more GS every time Turbine comes out with new stuff gets a bit ridiculous sometimes.

[Eladiun]

I like Shroud as much as the next guy, but having to reshift gear around and make more GS every time Turbine comes out with new stuff gets a bit ridiculous sometimes.

I look at the Shroud like brushing my teeth or showering. It's something I do everyday first thing I after I log on...not so much fun.